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- From: drury@helix.nih.gov (Richard Drury)
- Subject: Re: Protest
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.225457.18380@alw.nih.gov>
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- Organization: National Institutes of Health
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 22:54:57 GMT
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- In article ata@hfsi.uucp (John Ata - FSO) writes:
- >
- >Now you are talking dollars and not the safety of the population.
- >I guess we as a society are going to have to decide whether we
- >value all human life, or just certain ones. If the answer is all
- >human life, then the economic argument becomes irrelevant.
-
- Safety isn't free. Ignoring the economic aspects of this problem
- just ensures that it will continue to go unresolved. Take your
- proposal for example. Locking up all the violent criminals and
- maintaining them securely for the rest of their lives sounds
- just great until you try to figure out how to pay for the
- necessary infrastructure. Then it becomes just another
- infeasible scheme. I'm sure you are perfectly sincere and your
- intentions are pure. But the pursuit of infeasible schemes is
- effectively a vote for the status quo, in this case the daily
- execution of our fellow citizens by violent criminals. With all
- due respect, I think that's a hell of a way to express your
- devotion to the sanctity of human life.
- --
- Richard A. Drury
- drury@helix.nih.gov
-